@TheMattbat999 sort of similar, presumably. I've spent a lot of time thinking about how my peoples started off, developed, customs, etc... am still spending plenty time thinking and considering how architecture would in some cases be shaped/characterized by these customs, heritage, etc.

@Bellerophon it would, if it were only the insides of the wall. But there's also surroundings and what-not; I want it be organically grown to some point, then BAMM big infrastructure project, then grown around infrastructure, etc.

The Celtic hill fort of Otzenhausen is one of the biggest fortifications the Celts ever constructed.
It was built by Gauls of the Treveri tribe, who lived in the region north of the fort. The fort is located on top of the Dollberg, a hill near Otzenhausen in Germany, about 695 m above sea level. The only visible remains are two circular earth ramparts, covered with stones.
== History ==
In times of war, the circular rampart was a strong fortification against enemies. Theories suggest this one might have been more than just a refuge. There might have been a permanent settlement, a village or the...

How old can you get without aging?
My ongoing science fiction project has FTL travel that is instantaneous for the ships and their crews but still, usually, takes years of real-time in the rest of the universe. This is going to have an effect on crews, they are going to lose every contact they m...

Question
Everything transmits, reflects and absorbs light to some extent. Humans, rocks, the atmosphere, etc.. Everything interacts with any particular wavelength differently.
If you look at a person in sunlight, they cast a shadow as well as reflect certain wavelength back to you while others ...

@Kepotx the eventual map will be set somewhere around the equiv of our 1800-1900 ;; the time the wall is built will be somewhere at least 30-80 years before that;; the time I start with the map is probably somewhere late medieval (so 1650 - 1750) equiv

aka progressing the map from a start situation, over a few events to an end situation

SI Units form the official language of international science. As such I want to discuss whether questions that are tagged for either science-based or hard-science should automatically warrant the use of only metric SI Units.
I ask in relation to several answers to Quick solutions to a modern war...

Designing an advanced deadman's switch for the "vitality impaired".
I don't usually use vampires as main characters, they're normally supporting characters for more and less human immortals, but I've decided to flesh them out a bit. I was thinking about advanced, hands free dead man's switches f...

Extinction Equilibrium
extinction natural-disasters reality-check hard-science science-based
In Earth's past, one side had always suffered more species loss than the other. The Permian extinction event, for example, saw the death of 70% of the world's terrestrial species and 96% of the world's ...

@Kepotx ah tolls are definitely gonna be a big thing; with the area of the city tolls could even incentivize people moving into the city for work, etc. brining more wealth, SWEET IDEA keep it in your head for a soon to come question

hmm, tha base structure I imagined is a 'wall' with a radius of 1 mile (~1.6km) that goes around the city area for a huge stretch; that wall would have an artificial river on top serving as a water-supply capable of supplying much more people than the few streams in the area, basically damming up a short stretch of river and waterfall coming from the mountains and instead leading the water along a wider area

On the other side, you'd have to scale a sharp cliff (doable, and has been done many times, but hard unless you are willing to take them on with no hope of relief and only what you can carry on your belt).

FWIW, the romans once took advantage of a storm to scale a cliff and beat up some Jewish defenders. The Jewish guys couldn't fight back because the storm was strong enough that they couldn't get close to the edge.

FWIW, the Romans are my least favorite people in history after the Canaanites (those guys were just horrible, with their Molech and all).

@Hosch250 Rome also got sacked several times over. However, a lot of their stuff is still standing (several thousand years later), which is a real testament to the quality of the engineering and the architecture.

@Hosch250 I admit your point about traffic. However, looking at how often cracks in the roads around my house have to be repaired (every 10 years at the most), even without vehicular traffic, weathering alone would do rather a number on them.

@Gryphon Actually there were a lot of people interested in the roads, just very few people writing history down. The Dark Ages didn't see a major population crash just a major organised government vacuum.

A brief history (in case anyone cares still^^): The city started off as a mining town, pulling mainly coal from the mountains, maybe another big vein of iron or copper as well). There's a monastery at the far right and a village to it, some farming, and lots of woods; swamp-plains along the lake where the river from the mountains feed into the lake.

The mining town quickly gains traction and expands as the mountians are rich in bounty, a small industry grows around the mining and a viallge/small town comes to be around it as well, housing workers, providing, smelting and metal processing i…

@Hosch250 On the other hand, I'm betting people were still using Roman roads with no maintenance but walking on them by 1000 AD. And not having much of a problem with it (other than the occasional cracked cobblestone).

@Gryphon Depends where they are, in temperate climates, like most of Europe even Roman roads don't last hugely long without traffic and/or work. Our roads would be the same, where there's good rainfall and plant growth they'll be trashed in a few years, even less on floodplains.

@Hosch250 Depends on what your metric is. By population, the large majority of the clergy were village priests, who I would certainly not count as politicians. Of course, the most famous and wealthy clergy were essentially politicians.